By Alec Meer on November 5th, 2007 at 9:48 pm.
If you somehow managed to wade through all ninety thousand words of my fevered ranting about Telltale’s Sam & Max episodes recently, you might have noticed that, despite my other criticisms of the series, I do have a lot of time for Episode 4: Abe Lincoln must die. Apparently it was the best reviewed of the series too, so it’s not just me being mad.
Well, turns out the whole three-to-five hour fandango’s just been released for free, to help promote Season 2 of the game – the first episode of which is released this Thursday. It’s well worth a play, whether you’re yet to try any of the series or if you’d given up on it ealier, as it’s a bit of a change in direction and, I’m told, has informed some of Season 2′s approach.
Go geddim from here. Happily, it’s now a direct download from Telltale, rather than through IGNPlanetSpot’s nosey sign-up process, incidentally.
Yep – easily the best of the first series. If only for the… well. I won’t say. Wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise.
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Well hurray for that. I’ll check this out tomorrow.
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I hope I can still download this tomorrow. Games (ie FarCry) have a habbit of “expiring” just as I finish my download.. hmph
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That is very nice of them.
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So when they say free, they actually mean free if you register with IGN and pay their monthly subscription fee?
Yes, fuck off, thanks.
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No, they mean free as in free. You need a Fileplanet login, but that doesn’t cost anything other than the terror of giving a huge multinational corporation your email address.
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I’m actually really enjoying this. It’s good, although as you say it is apparently the best in the series.
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And if you’re really adverse to Fileplanet etc, they’re putting it on the Telltale website itself tomorrow.
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Right, well, when you are presented with the register screen, it really shouldn’t have a huge PAY THIS AMOUNT all over it.
I’ll register whilst wearing my tinfoil hat, forthwith.
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If I have to wait for half an hour only to *start* my download, then I am flat-out not interested until Telltale have it up on their site.
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It’s also on Gamespot.
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If I play this, will it spoil episodes 1-3? I haven’t played them yet, buy may well do when I’ve cleared my unplayed-games backlog.
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No, it just means there’s a couple of references you might not get.
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Directly from Telltale, no registration required and easier than a bowel movement link.
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Well hurray for that! Downloading.
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And now for the really, really lazy, it’s even free over Steam too.
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